Manifestations of Venus

[Jules Siegel]

Tom Stanton wrote:
> 
> > You will get yourself laughed off stage at any conventional academic
> > symposium for saying this, but it really does look as if we are dealing
> > with material that dates back to before Noah's flood, which I am sure
> > was a historical fact best explained by the theories of Immanuel
> > Velikovsky.
> 
> Whoa, dude! I was with you on the goddess stuff & biblical translation
> business, but Velikovsky??? You're right, the symposium just became
> the Komedy Kassle!
> 
> > At one time a vast and highly evolved civilization on Earth
> > that was almost entirely destroyed by cosmic cataclysms that occurred
> > within the historical memory of man.
> 
> At last, Atlantis!
> 
> [clip Graves stuff]
> 
> > As you may
> > know, there is some reason to believe that a planet called Vulcan once
> > existed in what is now the asteroid belt.
> 
> It may also have been a moon, or stray material that never became a
> planet. Dunno if astronemers dubbed it Vulcan...
> 
> > Velikovsky claimed (to the
> > best of my memory) that a comet appeared out of the Red Spot in Jupiter,
> > nearly colliding with Mars and coming so close to the Earth that a
> > cosmic spark passed between the object and Earth. It settled into an
> > orbit around the sun and became the planet Venus. If there are any
> > Velikovsky experts here, I hope they will correct this scheme, but let
> > us accept it in broad outline for the sake of the argument.
> 
> Yikes! Let's not. Velikovsky is right up there with the other pseudo-
> scientists. No evidence, no support, but a whopping good story.
> Comets don't emerge from the red spot, caroom off planets like pool
> balls,
> and then turn into another planet.
> 
> Sorry, not gonna bite on this one...

Of course not. Actually, you just did. Have you ever read Velikovsky and
looked at his critics? I have. Carefully. Skeptically. What an
unbelievable case of academic lynching! Really disgusting.

When do scientists quit claiming that their views are Truth and
evrything else is pseudo-science. Velikovsky has a strong hypothesis.
Maybe your guys have strong hypotheses too. But that's all they are:
informed (sort of) speculation.

One question: Where did the vegetation found in the stomachs of
still-preserved Siberian mastodons uncovered in 10,000+ years-old snow
come from?

Always wondered about that. Appreciate an answer. Really.
 
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